Men, Women, War, and Politics. Family and Polis in Aristophanes and Euripides

Saxonhouse, Arlene W.

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“…Others have found in the corpus of ancient Athenian tragedies resources for reflection on democratic principles. The literature is large, but see most prominently the essays in Euben's edited volume (1986a) and his books and articles (e.g., 1982; 1986b; 1990; 1997); as well as Nussbaum (1986); Saxonhouse (1980Saxonhouse ( , 19841988;1992, chap. 3) and the references in above in notes 3 and 4.…”

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Another Antigone

Saxonhouse

2005

Political Theory

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The Phoenician Women, Euripides’ peculiar retelling and refashioning of the Theban myth, offers a portrait of Antigone before she becomes the actor we mostly know today from Sophocles’ play. In this under-studied Greek tragedy, Euripides portrays the political and epistemological dissolution that allows for Antigone’s appearance in public. Whereas Sophocles’ Antigone appears on stage ready to confront Creon with her appeal to the universal unwritten laws of the gods and later dissolves into the female lamenting a lost womanhood, Euripides’ Antigone experiences the opposite journey, thereby offering insights into the conditions that allow for her exposure in the political arena. A speech by Eteocles at the center of the play questions the existence of absolutes, calls injustice beautiful, and opens the door for Antigone’s entrance into the public sphere. With this speech Eteocles challenges us to consider the conditions of political openness in the modern age.

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Another Antigone

Saxonhouse

2005

Political Theory

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“…She reflects, perhaps, the characteristic misogyny of Greek culture and the fear of the mother, who in the twin person of queen concentrated fearful power for husbands (Slater 1968;Okin 1977;Arthur 1983;Humphreys 1977;Saxonhouse 1980;Hartsock 1983) -so much so that her sons had to be stifled, at birth if need be. Pandora is indeed a double-faced, female Janus-and here she is closer to Hathor, 'the beautiful woman' of the Egyptian Ennead.…”

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Pandora and Hatshepsut: Ancient Archtypes in the iconography of kingship

Springborg

1991

Australian Journal of Political Science

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“…In Greek literature, however, this dichotomy plays a frequent and profound role. For a fuller discussion of this opposition see Saxonhouse 1980 and 15. Here again we must note the similarity between Oedipus and the Platonic Socrates.…”

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The Tyranny of Reason in the World of the Polis

Saxonhouse

1988

Am Polit Sci Rev

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The modern language of tyranny has distorted the significance of the Greek term tyrannos. In ancient Greek the term was accorded to the new ruler in the city, one whose legitimacy did not reside in his bonds to the ancient rulers and ancient families. Tyranny thus suggested a freedom from the past. Reason, as the Greeks understood it, also entailed a breaking away from the physical world. Reason and tyranny thus work together as expressions of freedom, but it is a freedom that in its transcendence of boundaries leads to tragedy. An examination of Sophocles' Oedipus draws out both the glory and the failure of the individual attempt of the political actor to rise above the historical particular and the mere body to build a world where reason alone is power.

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Men, Women, War, and Politics. Family and Polis in Aristophanes and Euripides

Cited by 15 publications

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Another Antigone

Another Antigone

Pandora and Hatshepsut: Ancient Archtypes in the iconography of kingship

The Tyranny of Reason in the World of the Polis

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